DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training Administration

TA-W-39,524

TEX TECH INDUSTRIES
TEMPE, ARIZONA


Negative Determination Regarding Eligibility
To Apply for Worker Adjustment Assistance

In accordance with Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19
USC 2273) as amended by the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act
of 1988 (P. L. 100-418), the Department of Labor herein presents
the results of an investigation regarding certification of eligi-
bility to apply for worker adjustment assistance.
In order to make an affirmative determination and issue a
certification of eligibility to apply for adjustment assistance,
each of the group eligibility requirements of Section 222 of the
Act must be met:
(1) that a significant number or proportion of the workers in
the workers' firm, or an appropriate subdivision thereof,
have become totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially separated;

(2) that sales or production, or both, of the firm or sub-
division have decreased absolutely; and

(3) that increases of imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles produced by the firm or ap-
propriate subdivision have contributed importantly to the
separations, or threat thereof, and to the absolute
decline in sales or production.

The investigation was initiated on July 2, 2001, in response
to a petition filed by the company on behalf of workers at Tex Tech
Industries, Tempe, Arizona. The workers produced felt for tennis
balls.
The investigation revealed that criterion (3) has not been
met.
The subject firm does not import felt for tennis balls.
The Department of Labor surveyed a major customer of the
subject firm and found that customer does not import felt for
tennis balls.
Conclusion
After careful review, I determine that all workers of Tex Tech
Industries, Tempe, Arizona, are denied eligibility to apply for
adjustment assistance under Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.

Signed in Washington, D. C. this 30th day of August 2001.

/s/ Edward A. Tomchick,

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EDWARD A. TOMCHICK
Director, Division of
Trade Adjustment Assistance